By Dave Andrusko On July 1, a new law went into effect in Arizona which in cases of divorce and subsequent disputes over frozen embryos will give custody to the parent who would "allow the in vitro embryos to develop to birth," the Arizona Republic reported. According...
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Family seeks wrongful death lawsuit after loss of frozen embryos
Approximately 4,000 eggs and embryos have been destroyed in the malfunction. The case raises ethical questions around IVF Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post written by SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. A couple whose frozen embryos were...
Woman asks Missouri Court of Appeals for custody of frozen embryos
By Dave Andrusko As is always the case, the details are different but the legal question remains the same: what happens to frozen embryos when a couple splits and there is a fight over the embryos’ future. Prior to their divorce in 2014, immigration lawyer Jalesia...
San Francisco judge rules divorced couple’s frozen embryos must be “thawed and discarded”
By Dave Andrusko San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled Wednesday that Mimi C. Lee must adhere to an agreement she’d made with her ex-husband to destroy five frozen embryos if the couple divorced. The couple separated in 2013 and divorced in...
Once again, life imitates art in Hollywood
The highest-paid actress in US television is embroiled in a dispute over embryos By Michael Cook The technical term for Hollywood’s latest bioethical brain-teaser is anti-mimesis, Oscar Wilde’s theory that life imitates art. Sophia Vergara, highest-paid TV actress in...